But she couldn’t move over! Because somebody would have branded SUXEL on the rear bumper of her car.
Threadwinner.
It’s the sarcasm that gets me. It could have been like this:
Poster 1: Why don’t you get the I-Pass?
Broomstick: Well, I just really can’t afford $30 right now!
Instead, she goes on this sarcastic rant about how that’s her grocery money and how we should all know that, apparently!
But she will never come into this thread.
That’s another thing. If you can’t merge in traffic, what are you even doing on the road?
And she’s a pilot at that.
This.
And more than sarcasm, it’s to the point where she’s acting insulted. “How DARE you suggest I spend $30 on something! That’s ¼ of our grocery money… do you want one of us to STARVE?!”
That’s an actual paraphrase of what she said in that thread:
Yeah - money may make the world go round, but I’m a firm believer that civility greases its wheels. She could have said the exact same thing:
"$30 is what I spend on groceries in a week, per person! I’d have to ask the other half of the household to give up eating one day in four for a month to afford that… 
"
Much more civil and not insulting.
To help open a new grocery store.
Since when does a pilot merge into traffic? 
It’s 2015. Have you not seen Back to the Future II?
Of the century!
I’m sort of sympathetic with her but mostly I just want to yell, yes we get it. You’re poor. Really, you are poor. You have no money. We’re sorry to hear that. That fact that we’re all not immediately doing everything we can every single second of our lives to make you not poor does not make us all terrible people.
Heck, I’ve got two.
What got me was the “you only have a minute to move over four lanes” part. Does she think a minute is the same as a second? She seems to think it’s impossible to change lanes if she chose the wrong one initially. How dare so many people live where she needs to drive.
I have driven, maybe not in the worst backwaters, but in NYC, and New Jersey, and Boston, and worst of all, Delhi. Delhi was particularly bad. And in all these places I managed to switch lanes when I needed to, even in under a minute, and with more than just cars.
Maybe a minute is just 60 seconds WHERE YOU LIVE… but to us poor people, a minute is 1/1440th hours out of our precious day! And if you’re poor, than can mean the difference between working that minute and earning the money, or not being able to afford 11 grains of rice!
A minimum wage worker being paid to traveling several hundred miles to help open a grocery store in another state? Do I have all the facts correct here?
If it’s Broomstick posting . . . you probably don’t have most of the facts.
Exactly. I was a terrible person long before this!
I don’t think she works for a grocery chain, but I could be wrong.
Hitting the financial skids can do a lot of things to one’s way of thinking, especially if you fee; you’re stuck there for whatever reason. Broomstick reminds me of some of my coworkers in that instance.
From the way she has described her workplace I’m pretty sure it’s Meijer, a Michigan-Indiana-Wisconsin chain very similar to a Super Walmart but not quite as horrible. She stocks shelves in the HBA department.